Anyway, when he was done giving the paperwork to his assistant, he went back to the table that was next to the couch and grabbed the holonet news on his holopad that he had saved about Ilanah's alleged affair. The Senator would walk out of the living room, and headed for their bedroom where Ilanah was packing for both of them. He didn't think it was necessary, but his wife had insisted. Tremaine was never good at packing. Usually, he just picks out what he needed for upcoming trips and just throws it into his bags. That's how busy he was with his nonprofit business in the Outer Rim. He never had time to properly pack stuffs. Now that he has, he doesn't really pack well. Thus why Ilanah insisted that she pack stuffs for him.

Tremaine had decided not to just barge into the bedroom and demand answers from Ilanah. He knew that would ruin the mood for the relationship if the tabloids were false. Instead, he decided to take a gentle and soft approach. The Senator gave out a soft smile and kissed Ilanah on the cheeks while she was packing for him, "Hey, Lana." His tone was soft, and nonthreatening. A small sigh would be heard from the Senator, "It's probably crazy, but I just had to check with you." He would then press a button and the holopad would play the news of the alleged affair between his wife and his good friend, Airstrike Fitzgerald.

"I'm pretty sure this didn't happen, seeing how this came from the tabloids. However, this is probably a way of giving hints that our marriage might needs a little working on. I just want to know if there's something about our marriage that you'd want to talk to me about."

The senator took the holopad from him when he pushed the play button. She watched the entire thing and then sighed herself. "This is recent." Lana commented as she pressed the button to turn the device off. "You know...it's true, Tremaine." But that was not an admission to an affair, nor was she finished.

She dropped the holopad on the bed and then sat down, smoothing her dress as she did. "You were gone a long time, and yes, Eli and I spent time together. But it was nothing more than dinners and lunches as friends. You know me better than that. I made some stupid choices when I was young, Kal being the worst of them, but you know me now. And you know that this would never happen."

Lana paused for a moment. "You don't have to believe me if you don't want to, but I've never lied to you." She finished with that and rose back to her feet and turned her attention back to the packing. Stupid paparazzi. She knew that she should have been used to things like that....and it could have been much worse.

It wasn't just that, he also trusts Airstrike not to do the stupid thing. At least not when he was up for reelection. Tremaine would grab the holopad from the bed and threw it into a can, "I can always get a new one." This was a way of Tremaine telling Ilanah that he's already forgetten about the alleged affair thing. "Are we done packing? It should be fun to see the Jedi Academy for the first time. I wonder what Caden's quarters look like."

"Yes, I'm done packing." she finally said as she zipped the last bag. "I just want to see my son..." Lana murmured. She knew that he needed to be there to do his training. At the Academy, they could teach him how to use the power that he had, and not use it for the wrong reasons. That was her biggest fear, and she didn't know if Tremaine knew that fear or not.

"I'm ready. Do you have the transport and everything arranged?" Lana asked as she pulled a small datapad out of a drawer and tucked it into her handbag.

The Senator then walked out of the bedroom, carrying the bags toward the door where one of his bodyguards had pulled the speeder up to their place.

"Why don't you go and give that to your dad? He can put it in the speeder for you." she murmured as she got a coat out of the closet for her youngest son. He might need it once on the ship, as it did get very cold in space. Eventually though, she followed them out onto the speeder landing just in time to see Aris greet his father.

Tremaine had been gone so much, that he didn't get to see a lot of Aris' childhood, but Lana had made sure to send holos of all of the important things. She hadn't wanted to travel and leave him, which could have been part of the problem that they were having. Aris enjoyed his visits to the senate halls so much,that the school on Coruscant seemed the perfect place for him to learn. Now that he was living in the dormitory too, that left her with more time to do the travelling that she might want to do, including this trip with Tremaine to Eriadu.

"And then....this girl in my class said no, because she didn't think that a committee should be allowed to decide if a species is sen...t...ient or not. Which I agree with, and mom does too." He looked rather pleased with himself. Lana glanced to Tremaine for a moment and just watched for his reaction before she spoke.

"You're right, Aris. I do not agree with it. But there is also a time and place to argue the point." She added as she looked to him. She had heard that he liked to argue, and that would make him a great senator, as long as he was arguing about the right things in the right places.

That was all he could say, at least for the moment. The speeder headed into the traffic, it would be a couple of minutes before they get to the docking bay.

Once they reached the actual ship, she got out of the speeder and handed Aris his backpack. "Go find your seat, love." She murmured to him as he took the bag in his hands, then slung it over his shoulders. Aris started to run off towards the ship, and his mother paused, watching him go.

"Tremaine, I almost feel bad...putting him in that school. I kind of regret not letting him just be a kid for a while. You know? Living with his parents in a house with a big yard on Chandrila or Mowgle...riding a bike, having friends, playing in the dirt." She commented, though it was not something that she had ever admitted to her husband before. "Let him actually live before shoving him into the real world and sending him off to boarding school. I mean, I know he is close, and he comes home a few days a week and we have dinner and talk, but still...maybe I should buy him that new video game he's been wanting." She paused a moment. "No...I'm not trying to buy him or anything. I just...want him to be able to be a kid and still be great when he comes of age." Lana picked up her small carry on case and her briefcase, leaving the suitcases for the driver to load onto the ship for them.

She glanced at her husband for a moment and then smiled apologetically. "Sorry...I've just been thinking about that a lot lately."

Tremaine would grin and gave Lana a nice, long kiss on the lips. "That's okay. We're worried about Aris' future that we need to do something about the present."

"He is fine there though. I know that he is. I just feel guilty." The feeling would pass, she was sure. She had just tried so hard to do it right with Aris, since she had screwed up so badly with Caden, and she felt that she hadn't done every thing possible to make her son happy and normal and well adjusted. He was all of those things, she just wanted the best for him.

"Nevermind. It was just...I don't know that I can explain in a way to make you understand." She wasn't insulting him, she just didn't know how to explain her feelings well enough to be understood. It was no problem to do so in the senate chamber, but talking to Tremaine was completely different than that.

Finally, she pulled away and walked up the ramp of the ship that Aris had already dissapeared into in order to find her son and get him settled in before the ship would take off.

That was when his wife pulled away from him and got inside the shuttle. He would sigh, following her into the shuttle. The Senator would go ahead and sit on the pilot chair, where he likes to fly. Most Senators would have prefer to simply be passengers, but not Tremaine. This is where he does his best thinking, and where his calmness is best suited at. After some time of waiting for the shuttle to be revved up, he had taken the ship off the ground. As a couple of starfighter escorts followed, the shuttle headed for the space.

"It's not like I am trying to keep you in the dark, Tremaine....because I am not." she said as she settled down into the seat next to him. "I just have a lot of regrets. I messed up a lot with Caden, and I didn't want to do that with Aris, and I feel like I did. It's not like I can do anything to change it, I just need to do the best I can from here on out."

She paused for a few moments while the engines fired. "So how long is this trip going to take?"